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TIL that all time travel movies are banned in China.

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P1g7E TIL that the skeletor from he-man was inspired by a real life corpse that scared his creator as a child
yV8OM TIL about Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist, friend of Aliester Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and died in an explosion.
b9QNN TIL in 1862 a man was tried and executed for being a slave trader.